"Like most men, I'm more opposed to violence against women
than even violence against men," Duncan said. "Because most men can
handle it a little better than a lot of women can."

As noted by the newspaper, VAWA is actually a gender-neutral law, and
its protections extend to all victims of domestic violence and sexual
assault, male and female. The name simply stems from the fact that women
tend to be targeted by these crimes far more often.

But really, it's unsurprising that Rep. Duncan seems not to know or
care to learn what's in the bill he claims to be so torn over voting
for—that's just par for the course in Republican politics—but that his
support for the bill in contingent on the claim that women are inferior,
as opposed to less shaky grounds such as "crime is wrong" or "rape and
domestic violence tear at our communities."